Word: mediterranean
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Continuing from where he left off in his previous lecture, which dealt with the early history of the Mediterranean races and the Roman empire before its dissolution. M. Millet showed what an important role Christianity and Mohammedanism played in breaking up the unity of the old world. The philosophy of Christianity differed greatly from the Roman cult which demanded no personal reflection and did not address itself to the heart. The early Christians were to a great extent in the same position as the socialists and anarchists of the present day, who, on account of their unorthodox inspirations are rightly...
...world their own civilization, with the world today, where there is no longer any unoccupied space, and where we are ever in the presence of original and refractory civilizations which cannot and will not be modified. This problem, said M. Millet, brings us back to the history of the Mediterranean when Egypt and Assyria 2500 years ago found themselves in the presence of the forming European societies. Finally M. Millet discussed the more important races of this region--the Phcenicians, which brought about an evocation of the great Carthage, and the Greeks who were responsible for the rapid diffusion...
Since graduating from Harvard, Mr. Sampson has travelled extensively in the Rocky Mountains and in the Mediterranean countries, visiting Jerusalem and Damascus and crossing the desert to Palmyra. In 1903 as U. S. game preserve expert under the Biological Survey he made a tour of nearly 1300 miles, visiting forest reserves in California and Washington with the object of selecting certain areas where large game shall be protected. He has had an extended experience as a hunter in the West and Northwest and was until recently secretary of the Boone and Crockett Club...
...Germany, and said that Harvard could recognize its own spirit of great individuality in these objects of plastic art. He compared the Germanic with the Classic spirit in art. Bacon expressed the Germanic spirit when he wrote "there is no excellent beauty without some strangeness in the proportion." The Mediterranean spirit has always sought to avoid strangeness, and there by its works are so communicable and urbane. In spite of this we may believe the Germanic spirit to be more fruitful. It is less abstract, it preserves more shades of truth, and its works are superior in lovability, for love...
Professor Agassiz is now abroad visiting his scientific friends and examining the museums of the different universities. He has been to Munich, Leipsic, Vienna, Prague and Berlin and before returning in April he will visit the Mediterranean coast, and will spend some time in England and Scotland...